{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-functions-of-authorised-persons-civil-proceedings-rules-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/284",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Functions of Authorised Persons – Civil Proceedings) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-functions-of-authorised-persons-civil-proceedings-rules-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nProcedure\nMade 10th March 2020\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2020\nComing into force 6th April 2020\nThe Lord Chief Justice, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 and section 67B(1) of the Courts Act 2003, having taken the steps required by section 67C of the Courts Act 2003:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43. Section 144 has been amended by section 109(1) and (3) and paragraphs 245(1), (2), (5) of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003; section 15(1) and paragraphs 99, 102(1), (2), (3)(a), (3)(b), (4) and (6) of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005; section 208(1) and paragraphs 42, 43(b) of Schedule 21 to the Legal Services Act 2007; Article 3(2) and paragraphs 1(1), (2) to (6) of Schedule 2 to SI 2012/2398 and section 17(6) and paragraphs 39, 52 and 99 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 39. Sections 67B and 67C were inserted by section 3(1) of, and paragraphs 25 and 32 of the Schedule to, the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/284/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:32:23.211898+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}